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Date:      Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:14:01 +0800
From:      Tony <tony.uestc@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   boot FreeBSD from cdrom using grub
Message-ID:  <439D4D69.6000906@gmail.com>
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Hi,
   I'm trying to make an iso image that will boot FreeBSD using GRUB 
boot loader.
   Grub will boot /boot/loader and the loader will boot /boot/kernel. It 
goes well on my disk, but when I try to make a livecd, it fails. I spend 
some time figuring out that loader does not probe cd it self, it depends 
on boot1 to tell him when cd to boot. So I did some hack on loader. 
Bellow is the diff:
*** sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c.bak     Sun Dec 11 19:32:29 2005
--- sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c Sun Dec 11 22:04:29 2005
***************
*** 228,235 ****
       if ((new_currdev.d_type == biosdisk.dv_type) &&
         ((new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = bd_bios2unit(biosdev)) == 
-1)) {
         printf("Can't work out which disk we are booting from.\n"
!              "Guessed BIOS device 0x%x not found by probes, defaulting 
to disk0:\n", biosdev);
!       new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = 0;
       }
       env_setenv("currdev", EV_VOLATILE, i386_fmtdev(&new_currdev),
                i386_setcurrdev, env_nounset);
--- 228,238 ----
       if ((new_currdev.d_type == biosdisk.dv_type) &&
         ((new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = bd_bios2unit(biosdev)) == 
-1)) {
         printf("Can't work out which disk we are booting from.\n"
!              "Guessed BIOS device 0x%x not found by probes, defaulting 
to cd0(%d):\n", biosdev, biosdev);
! bc_add(biosdev);
!           new_currdev.d_type = bioscd.dv_type;
!           new_currdev.d_dev = &bioscd;
!           new_currdev.d_kind.bioscd.unit = bc_bios2unit(biosdev);
       }
       env_setenv("currdev", EV_VOLATILE, i386_fmtdev(&new_currdev),
                i386_setcurrdev, env_nounset);

Then the kernel starts, but when the kernel try to mount the root fs, it 
stops. I have the follow line in my /etc/fstab
/dev/acd0c              /               cd9660  ro          0       0

I am stranded. Anyone can help?

thx
Tony

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*** sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c.bak     Sun Dec 11 19:32:29 2005
--- sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c Sun Dec 11 22:04:29 2005
***************
*** 228,235 ****
      if ((new_currdev.d_type == biosdisk.dv_type) &&
        ((new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = bd_bios2unit(biosdev)) == -1)) {
        printf("Can't work out which disk we are booting from.\n"
!              "Guessed BIOS device 0x%x not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:\n", biosdev);
!       new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = 0;
      }
      env_setenv("currdev", EV_VOLATILE, i386_fmtdev(&new_currdev),
               i386_setcurrdev, env_nounset);
--- 228,238 ----
      if ((new_currdev.d_type == biosdisk.dv_type) &&
        ((new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = bd_bios2unit(biosdev)) == -1)) {
        printf("Can't work out which disk we are booting from.\n"
!              "Guessed BIOS device 0x%x not found by probes, defaulting to cd0(%d):\n", biosdev, biosdev);
! bc_add(biosdev);
!           new_currdev.d_type = bioscd.dv_type;
!           new_currdev.d_dev = &bioscd;
!           new_currdev.d_kind.bioscd.unit = bc_bios2unit(biosdev);
      }
      env_setenv("currdev", EV_VOLATILE, i386_fmtdev(&new_currdev),
               i386_setcurrdev, env_nounset);

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